Our lab faculty (lab directors) have authored key publication in laboratory medicine:

• In addition to publishing many academic papers, members of our lab faculty have authored a textbook entitled Guide to Diagnostic Testing, which is used in medical schools and residency programs to teach the appropriate use of laboratory testing to assist in the diagnosis and treatment of patients, and to define laboratory testing algorithms to assist in that process.
• Members of our lab faculty department (lab directors) have also been selected by the publishers of Interpretation of Diagnostic Tests, one of the definitive reference textbooks on laboratory testing, to become the editors of that textbook, to update that book for the Ninth Edition, and to then more completely re-write the book for its Tenth Edition.

                                

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Table of Contents:

Contributors vii

Tribute to Jacques Wallach ix

Preface xi

Preface to the First Edition xiii

CHAPTER 1: Introduction to Laboratory Medicine 1
L.V. Rao

CHAPTER 2: Laboratory Tests 10
L.V. Rao, Liberto Pechet, Amanda Jenkins, Edward I. Ginns, Marzena
Galdzicka, Guy Vallaro, Charles Kiefer, and Patricia Minehart Miron

CHAPTER 3: Infectious Diseases Assays 396
Michael J. Mitchell and L.V. Rao

CHAPTER 4: Cardiovascular Disorders 498
Guy Vallaro

CHAPTER 5: Central Nervous System Disorders 526
Juliana Szakacs

CHAPTER 6: Digestive Diseases 562
L. Michael Snyder and Michael J. Mitchell

CHAPTER 7: Endocrine Diseases 652
Hongbo Yu

CHAPTER 8: Renal and Urinary Tract Diseases 706
Liberto Pechet and Charles Kiefer

CHAPTER 9: Gynecologic and Obstetric Disorders 765
Liberto Pechet and Mary Williamson

CHAPTER 10: Hematologic Disorders 785
Liberto Pechet

CHAPTER 11: Hereditary and Genetic Diseases 900
Marzena Galdzicka, Patricia Minehart Miron, and Edward I. Ginns

CHAPTER 12: Immune and Autoimmune Diseases 929
Liberto Pechet

CHAPTER 13: Infectious Diseases 941
Michael J. Mitchell

CHAPTER 14: Respiratory, Metabolic, and Acid-Base Disorders 1037
L.V. Rao and Michael J. Mitchell

CHAPTER 15: Toxicology and Therapeutic Drug Monitoring 1083
Amanda Jenkins

Appendix: Abbreviations and Acronyms 1099

Index 1105